Re: [CentOS] why would ls, while or ci use NIS?

Thanks, that makes sense. Dave

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com wrote:

If you have NIS configured, it'll be used by anything that needs to map a uid or gid number to a name, or anything that needs a list of groups for users, among other things.

That means (IIRC) that having a crontab implies a NIS lookup, because creating a new session for your user needs to fetch supplementary groups from NIS (even for root).

'ls -l' might also do lookups to resolve the uid/gid of your local files. "local files" does not imply that there is no need for YP.

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